Genus vs Prunella - What's the difference?
genus | prunella |
(biology, taxonomy) a rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank
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A group with common attributes.
*1945 , (Bertrand Russell), A History of Western Philosophy , p. 655:
*:Recollection is one of a whole genus of effects which are more or less peculiar to the phenomena that we naturally call "mental."
(topology) A number measuring some aspect of the complexity of any of various manifolds or graphs
(semantics) Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
(medicine) angina, or angina pectoris
(medicine) thrush
A smooth woollen stuff, generally black, formerly used for making shoes and clergymen's gowns; a kind of lasting.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between genus and prunella
is that genus is a rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank while prunella is any member of the genus Prunella of herbaceous plants, the allheals.genus
English
Noun
(genera)- All magnolias belong to the genus ''Magnolia .
- Other species of the genus ''Bos'' are often called cattle or wild cattle.
- There are only two genera and species of seadragons .
- Müller criticized the division of the "Jubuleae" into two families and he cited Jubula as an annectant genus .
